Essential Question What factors led to the Chinese Exclusion Act?

Title: Collect Evidence:Interpret Evidence: What do you see?What do the images represent or mean? Draw Conclusions: What does this photograh reveal about the people or the time period? What can we learn from it?

Transcontinental Railroad Two trains heading towards one another Many people gathered for a photograph in front of the trains. Man holding a bottle The trains are coming together from different directions – joining up This is a special occasion The men are celebrating the event This is a photograph of the “joining of the rails” in 1869 when the Central Pacific railroad tracks met up with the Union Pacific railroad tracks completing the transcontinental railroad – uniting the East Coast and the West Coast by train.

Cornell Note-Taking System Questions answered by Notes: Notes: Summarize the main ideas in two or three sentences.

Transcontinental RR During the Civil War, the North passed laws to support industrial businesses. Congress passed the Pacific Railway Act of 1863 – giving free land and loans of money to help RR companies build the transcontinental railroad Union Pacific Railroad company – built tracks from East to West. Central Pacific RR – built tracks from West to East.

The Building of the railroad depended on the labor of hundreds of thousands of workers. In the West, most of the people who built the railroad were Chinese.

Building of the Transcontinental RR Questions answered by Notes: Notes: Summarize the main ideas in two or three sentences. This law gave free land and loans of money to help build the transcontinental rr What was the Pacific Railway Act of 1863? The Union Pacific? The Central Pacific? Chinese Labor? This RR company built tracks from the East to the West. This RR company build tracks from the West to the East A lot of workers were needed to build the RR and most of them were Chinese. The government provided incentives for RR companies to build a transcontinental rr and the companies used Chinese labor to complete it.

Task: Historical Detectives What happened between the 1860s, when Chinese were welcomed, and 1882 when they were excluded? With a partner, read and interpret a timeline. Hypothesize - fill in the hypothesis section of the graphic organizer.

Task: Historical Detectives What happened between the 1860s, when Chinese were welcomed, and 1882 when they were excluded? Count off by A – B – C – D and examine the primary source document corresponding to your letter A-D Complete the Graphic Organizer for your letter. Share your findings with other students to fully complete your research (Meet with other letters)

Document A

Document B

Document C

Document D

Writing for Understanding: Why did Americans pass the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882? Use evidence from the documents and the timeline to support your argument